- DirecTV Ramps Up National TV Ad Spend With New Streaming Service
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 23, 2021
DirecTV Stream, one of the newest internet-based live TV/on-demand streaming services, has spent an estimated $32.7 million in national TV advertising in the last 30 days, according to iSpot.tv. ...
- Google Fined, Russia Makes Good On Its Threat
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, August 17, 2021
A Moscow court on Tuesday fined Google for violating Russian rules on banned content, reflecting the government's stance on a U.S. company competing with Yandex, Russia's biggest search engine. ...
- HUMAN Fellowship Honors Late Co-Founder
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, August 3, 2021
The Dan Kaminsky Fellowship will be awarded to those who innovate for the internet and improve people's lives. The company is looking for "selfless" open-source projects that aim to he ...
- Apple, Google, Facebook: Regulation Roller Coaster Could Lead To China-Like Moves In U.S.
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, July 26, 2021
"We're on the verge of having platforms and companies so powerful and so influential in the political process that they're ungovernable," Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Romer told Bloomberg. He expec ...
- Akamai Says Internet Outage Is Resolved
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, July 22, 2021
The company has ruled out a cyberattack of the cause. It blames the episode on a software configuration update. ...
- Jeff Green's Moment Of Zen
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Thursday, July 8, 2021
During a long, rambling, emotionally charged new product presentation Wednesday, The Trade Desk CEO spoke about the unique existential moment for the ad industry, his family, and the future ...
- AI: Experts Voice Concerns Over Its Ethical Design And Focus On Profits, Social Control
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Experts say there's a lot at stake, and are concerned that AI systems will be used in ways that affect people's livelihoods and well-being in terms of jobs, families, a ...
- Websites And Apps Are Hit By Brief Outages
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Thursday, June 17, 2021
Financial institutions, airlines and other organizations were hit with brief web and app outages across the globe on Sunday. The outages hit the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and companies ...
- Fastly Says Outage Was Caused By Customer Changing A Setting
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Thursday, June 10, 2021
Tuesday’s internet outage was caused by a software bug triggered by a customer changing a setting, Fastly says. Users were unable to access such publishing sites as The New York Times and t ...
- Cox Communications Seeks To Set Aside $1 Billion Piracy Verdict
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 26, 2021
"Unlike the offerings of Napster and its ilk, internet service is neither designed nor advertised to promote piracy," Cox argues, as part of its appeal of a jury's December 20 ...
- FTC And States Sue Frontier Over Internet Speed Claims
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Frontier Communications duped subscribers by delivering internet service at lower-than-advertised speeds, the FTC and six states alleged in a lawsuit filed Wednesday. ...
- Mozilla, Advocates, And Attorneys General Defend California's Net Neutrality Law
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 12, 2021
"Absent effective neutrality rules, ISPs can -- and do -- act as self-interested gatekeepers," digital rights organizations tell a federal appellate court. ...
- A New Excuse For An Internet Outage: Beavers
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Monday, April 26, 2021
A weekend service outage for Canadian internet users was caused by beavers chewing through a cable. The animals dug underground and gnawed their way through a 3.50inch-thick conduit.
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- Digital Boomerang: New Online Customers Drive Boost In Returns
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Monday, April 5, 2021
Customer acquisition boomed in 2020, Alliant reports. New customers spent 144% more last year than they did in 2019. ...
- The Internet Finally Comes Of Age
Digital News Daily, Richard Hartell - Thursday, April 1, 2021
The internet as an advertising medium turns 27 this year. Its fourth transformation -- in which it can be used most strategically by agencies and clients -- will require ...
- White Ops Takes On Human Rebrand
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, March 30, 2021
The company, now owned by Goldman Sachs in partnership with ClearSky Security and NightDragon, said the name reflects its strong commitment to equality and diversity. ...
- Poshmark, Marie Kondo Team Up For New Campaign
D2C FYI, Sarah Mahoney - Monday, March 22, 2021
Kondo stars in new ads encouraging people to let clothes they used to love spark joy for someone else. ...
- Hispanics Feel Brands Don't Understand Their Culture: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Language is a minor factor in getting Hispanics to click on ads or emails, H Code reports. ...
- Comcast 2020 Performance Data Shows Customers Generated 1 Trillion-Plus Internet Requests Daily
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Comcast 2020 traffic patterns reveal a sharp surge in March and April, followed by a transition into a typical but still elevated growth spurt throughout most of the year. ...
- Comcast Brings Xfinity Stream App To Flex Devices
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, February 25, 2021
The integration is meant to encourage internt-only customers to sample and subscribe to Xfinity pay-TV. ...
- The 'Real Story' Behind Facebook's Australian News Blackout, According To Facebook
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Facebook global affairs chief Nick Clegg charges there is a "fundamental misunderstanding" of Facebook's relationship with news publishers. His argument suggests the greatest misunderstanding is
actually Facebook's. ...
- Supreme Court Urged To Tighten Rules For Privacy Class-Actions
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Google, Facebook and others in Silicon Valley are urging the Supreme Court to effectively block consumers from bring federal class-action lawsuits over a large swath of privacy violations. ...
- Net Neutrality Necessary For Public Safety, Groups Tell FCC
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Advocacy groups including Public Knowledge, Common Cause and Free Press, as well as officials in Santa Clara County, are urging the FCC to restore the Obama-era open internet rules. ...
- It's Not About Reddit's Impact On AMC, GameStop, BlackBerry, Macy's Stocks...
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 28, 2021
It may seem like a story about investors being upended by excited social media users, but it's more to make the point of how social media can cause turbulence a ...
- Google Brings Down Internet Balloons, Makes Bets On Other Moonshots
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, January 22, 2021
Advertisers looking to reach consumers in rural communities through ads, content or ecommerce sites via internet balloon will no longer have that chance -- at least for now. ...
- Comcast Urged To Abandon 'Inconceivable' Plan To Impose Data Caps During Pandemic
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Comcast should reverse the decision to impose data caps, and reconsider "any perversion of the principles of net neutrality in Massachusetts," state lawmakers say. ...
- Why Web Freedom Won't Be The Same After COVID-19
Media Insider, Steven Rosenbaum - Monday, December 28, 2020
"I do not want the government to be the ones to decide what should or shouldn't be posted online," said one participant in a panel about platform legislation. ...
- Alibaba Investigated By China's Government For Monopolistic Practices
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, December 24, 2020
The probe looks into why merchants are required to sign exclusive cooperation pacts preventing their products and services being sold on other platforms. ...
- How Internet Speeds Changed During COVID-19
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, December 16, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic temporarily shutdown workplaces and schools across the country, but many Americans shifted to working and studying from home. WhistleOut analyzed how internet speeds across the United Stat ...
- How COVID-19 Has Made The Internet Indispensable
MAD, Claire Graves - Thursday, December 10, 2020
Some 3,000 respondents across the U.S. in the survey we conducted in partnership with YouGov agreed that the Internet was the most powerful tool to support and uplift one anoth ...
